# Chris Cox — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Chris Cox has 2 landmark patents explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Facebook's News Feed Picks Stories You'll Like](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8171128/facebook-social-graph) — granted 2012
  Facebook's 2012 patent explains how it creates a personalized news feed by showing stories about friends' actions, ordered by your interest, and updating it based on what you click.
- [Displaying Friends' Activities in a Social Network Feed](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7669123/facebook-news-feed-social-network) — granted 2010
  This patent describes how social networks like Facebook collect what users do, create short updates about those actions, and show them to specific friends in a personalized list called a "news feed."

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/chris-cox

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_Source: PatentBrief — https://patentbrief.org. Plain-English explanations of US patents._